Tatiana Johnson-Boria

Tatiana (she/her) is the author of Nocturne in Joy (2023), winner of the Julia Ward Howe Award in Poetry. She’s an educator and facilitator who uses her writing practice to dismantle racism, reckon with trauma, cultivate healing, and to explore the complex magic of mothering. She’s an award-winning writer who’s received fellowships from The MacDowell Residency, Tin House, The Massachusetts Cultural Council, and others.

Tatiana is also the founder The Starshine Arts Collective, an intentional community providing programming that tends to artists and writers of all levels of experience. She’s worked for more than a decade instructing and coaching writers and creatives to reach their goals. She also has extensive experience helping businesses and organizations do the same through creative strategy, communications, and marketing, which she does through her creative consultancy, Johnson-Boria Creative. She believes in uplifting the creative potential of all, especially those most often marginalized in our society

Tatiana is a 2017 Pushcart Prize nominee and received her MFA in Creative Writing at Emerson College where she also served as affiliated faculty. She currently teaches at universities and community writing programs across the country. Find her work in or forthcoming at the Academy of American Poets, Ploughshares, Kenyon Review, among others. She’s represented by Lauren Scovel at Laura Gross Literary.